"You aim at a devout life, dear Philothea, because as a Christian you know that such devotion is most acceptable to God's Divine Majesty," says St. Francis de Sales in his book "Introduction to the Devout Life".
And we can all be Philotheas, as St. Francis notes: "I have made use of a name suitable to all who seek the devout life, Philothea meaning one who loves God."

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Thursday, July 19, 2012

The Vortex: Catholic or Patriot?

I'll let Michael Voris take over today:

The script:

All over the
world…at least the western world…there is a growing unease that soon – and very
soon – Catholics may have to make a choice between their Catholic faith and
their country, between their faith and their patriotism.

As Providence
plays out, it would appear that center stage of this tragedy is the United
States of America. All the stars are aligning against the Church, and don’t let
lawsuits filed by the bishops and Catholic colleges fool you.

The clouds are
gathering quickly and darkening for the Church in the US. The American civilization has launched a
culture war against faithful Catholics – just as Otto von Bismarck did in the
mid to late 19th century in Germany, and the French government did
in the 18th century, and the English government did in the 16th
and 17th centuries.

Martyrs were
born of those oppressive and tyrannical governments. And martyrs will be born of the American
government’s tyranny as well.

When will
Catholics wake up and realize that what is working behind the scenes is a battle
between Heaven and Hell, between St. Michael and Lucifer?

Satan, being
defeated in eternity, still retains his angelic powers to wage war against the
Church...in time.

And until time
comes to an end and human history has played itself out, Satan will continue
to assail the Church personally established by Our Blessed Lord on St. Peter, whom he renamed...Rock.

Once again, the
bastard destroyer has seized hold of the powers of the state and is bringing
them to bear on the faithful. There are
still unresolved matters left to be worked out – details really - in Obama’s
diabolical health care law.

But at the White
House, Obama and Catholic traitors are in full scale advance, putting in place
their view of the world in which the Catholic Church has no part…the authentic
Catholic Church that is.

One day, and
soon, Catholics in America, who have been lulled into a false notion that you
can be both a good American and a good Catholic, are going to have to choose
between their Church and their country.

We have reached
this point for many reasons, but one that cannot be overlooked is how Church
leadership rushed headlong – and continues to do so – into a vision that a
government which promotes a vast array of evil can AT THE SAME TIME be reasoned
with to reach consensus on other questions of morality.

When a man named
Obama stood at center stage of the US Catholic world in May 2009 and declared
to raucous cheers from Notre Dame graduates, parents, and faculty, that common
ground needed to be reached on questions of abortion and freedom of conscience,
he was lying through his teeth and he knew it.

He used the
softened-up Catholic mind – the Church of Nice – to present a soft side of evil;
a side designed to be swallowed hook, line, and sinker by spineless and
delusional leaders who TO THIS DAY still actively promote some of his
legislation – suffering under an ignorant and less than fully informed
understanding of Catholic social doctrine.

These enemies of
the faith – like Obama, but certainly not just Obama; Pelosi, Biden, Kennedy, and
hundreds of others come to mind – these enemies of the faith have been allowed
to carry out their assaults against the common good of the Church and the culture PRECISELY
because so many Catholic bishops and lay staff around the country for decades
now have refused to stare down evil and call it out for what it is.

They have
refused to decry a law because it is intrinsically evil – meaning rotten to the
core JUST BECAUSE of WHAT IT IS. Even
now, this ridiculous idea of challenging the health care contraception mandate
because it infringes on religious freedom is patently absurd.

The law is evil…NOT
JUST UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Who cares if it’s
unconstitutional?!?

It’s evil
because it promotes an evil; namely contraception. That’s why the law is bad –
not because it may (OR MAY NOT) violate some arcane clause in a 200+ year old
document that only means what a majority of nine judges say it means.

Here’s the
reality, whether most bishops say it clearly or not: American Catholics will
soon be facing a decision whether to cooperate with the state or stand by their
faith and pay the consequences.

We have come to
this because too many leaders have betrayed their high calling to preach
unabashedly and untiringly the unalterable truths of Christ. And even now, they
still refuse to make pubic profession of their full guilt and do something
about it.

So it is now up
to the laity – the few who may still have some touchstone to the faith – to
stand before judges and courts and bureaucrats and pay the price for
Christ.

Catholics in
America may soon have to discover another way to live in the land of the "free" and the "home of the brave" – something America has not been since it unleashed
the slaughter of tens of millions of pre-born fellow citizens.

Make no mistake:
the diabolical has control of the halls of government and is waiting for the
opportunity to reveal itself fully. At
the rate things are progressing, we shouldn’t have to wait too long.

It’s time to
prepare ourselves, my fellow Catholics.
Immerse yourself in the faith and the sacraments, mind and soul, so that
when your time comes to choose, you will choose the way of martyrdom…however it
comes to you and me.

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